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Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). Despite the billing, the star is Composer Igor Stravinsky, making his U.S. TV debut as he conducts excerpts from his Firebird Suite. Canadian Pianist Glenn Gould plays the first movement of Bach's D-Minor Concerto, and Soprano Eileen Farrell sings the "Suicidio" aria from La Gioconda...
...becoming," said 77-year-old Igor Stravinsky, "not less but more of a serial composer." The reference was to his latest work, a twelve-minute exercise in what the most famed living composer calls "anti-tonality." Titled Movements for Piano and Orchestra, the work had its world premiere last week in Manhattan's Town Hall before an audience that was attentive and respectful, and unmoved...
...technique developed by his late great rival, Arnold Schoenberg (this technique is built on a freely selected series of individual tones rather than on the limited, key-oriented diatonic scale). But Stravinsky has added some of his own style to the serial method. In his book, Conversations with Igor Stravinsky (Doubleday; $4), Conductor Robert Craft sketched visual projections of musical styles from the simplicity of plain chant via the sound spirals of Atonalist Anton Webern to the newer serialists. Then Stravinsky added his own sketch of his own recent music (see cut). The knobs in the sketch stand for notes...
When the tiny old man walked onstage, moving crabwise around the pianos, the members of the audience at Manhattan's Town Hall rose in a spontaneous ovation. Igor Stravinsky turned to face them, ducked his head with a shy smile, the light tilting off his glasses. Then he stepped up on the podium to receive a different kind of ovation from four of the U.S.'s leading practitioners of his own art: Composers Lukas Foss, 37, Aaron Copland, 59, Roger Sessions, 62, Samuel Barber, 49. Seated at four grand pianos, two on each side of the stage...
...COMPOSERS CONCERT. Music of Igor Stravinsky...